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Chainalysis and Integra Win $1.25 Million IRS Contract to Break Monero
2.10.2020
Crypto intelligence firm Chainalysis and data forensics company Integra Fec have won a combined $1.25 million contract to provide tools that break the privacy-focused coin, monero, for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Floated early September, the one-year contract specifically covers...
Kucoin Hack: $17M Laundered Via Decentralized Exchanges, Blockchain Analysis Firm Claims This Can Still be Traced
2.10.2020
Elliptic says the Kucoin hacker has sold $17.1 million worth of tokens via decentralized exchanges (dex) platforms like Uniswap, Kyber Network, Tokenlon. The shift to dex applications comes after centralized projects came to the aid of the beleaguered exchange by blocking any cashing out of...
Smart Contract Protocol RSK Attempts to Bring Defi to the Bitcoin Network
2.10.2020
During the last year, Ethereum has dominated the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem but a number of other blockchain projects plan to join the fray. The second layer, smart contract protocol RSK aims to bring the defi demand to the Bitcoin blockchain and there’s already a few RSK-based...
A Model for the Next Generation DEX, TitanSwap Will Be a Dex With Better User Experience
2.10.2020
TitanSwap is using the renBTC protocol to implement cross-chain operations. Compared with the currently more common custodial cross-chain solutions wBTC and tBTC, the renBTC smart contract is a non-custodial access mechanism. Its core is the RenVM virtual machine, a decentralized network mainly...
Bitcoin Posts a 66-Day Consecutive Streak Above the $10K Price Range
1.10.2020
The Bitcoin network has achieved a few new milestones during the last week, as the price has remained above the $10k range for a record 66 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the network has surpassed 18.5 million bitcoin issued, as the global hashrate coasts along at an all-time high of 140 exahash...
DeFi Has a Front-Running Problem. Sparkpool’s Potential Fix Is Launching This Month
1.10.2020
Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool will launch its new mining network, Taichi Network, complete with a “private transaction” feature this month
LINE Corporation & Theta Network to Launch Video App for Asia Expansion
1.10.2020
Highly-acclaimed subsidiary brand of South Korea’s NAVER Corporation, LINE Corporation of Japan has announced the launch of an innovative video application named ‘THETA.tv for LINE’ in collaboration with Theta Network. The mobile-friendly service will be fueled by Theta’s protocol architecture...
Dash adjusts block reward percentage to improve the economics of its network
1.10.2020
This and other changes come as part of the protocol’s recent mainnet upgrade
Prospective Node Operators Stake $125M in ETH to Participate in NuCypher Encryption Network
1.10.2020
Encryption startup NuCypher has finished distributing its network’s native token, NU, to over 2,000 prospective node operators
Cumulative Ethereum Transaction Fees in 2020 Supersede Bitcoin’s by a Long Shot
30.9.2020
This week the research and analysis team Coin Metrics published a report on how decentralized finance (defi) is “fueling Ethereum’s growth.” Meanwhile, the researchers also highlighted that Ethereum’s cumulative transaction fees in 2020 are now over $350 million and more...
Uniswap Captures $2 Billion Locked, Dex Volume Outpaces Second-Largest Centralized Exchange
30.9.2020
The decentralized exchange (dex) built on Ethereum, Uniswap has accumulated a whopping $2 billion in total value locked (TVL) this week. Tuesday’s data shows out of all the decentralized finance (defi) application’s Uniswap dominates the $11 billion landscape by over 18%. Just recently...
Token Projects to Recover $130M from the Kucoin Hack, Devs Condemned for Centralization
29.9.2020
The cryptocurrency community has been discussing the Kucoin hack as a great number of ERC20 projects have frozen, paused, or reversed their smart contracts after the hack. Estimates say that at least $129 million ERC20 tokens affected are considered “safe” from the hacker’s...
Tether’s Stablecoin Dominance Drops Below 80% as Audit Controversy Lingers On
27.9.2020
The total volume of stablecoins in circulation is closing in on the $20 billion mark, while the market-leading coin, USDT’s share of the total circulating supply continues to shrink, data from Coinmetrics shows. According to the data, USDT now accounts for an estimated at 80% of total supply...
Bitgo Plans to Launch Wrapped Bitcoin on the Tron Blockchain
26.9.2020
Soon there will be another network that allows people to tokenize BTC in order to leverage the underlying blockchain’s speed and fees. On September 24, Bitgo, the custodian of the Wrapped Bitcoin project (WBTC), the most popular tokenized BTC platform to-date, announced a partnership with...
Voyager CEO Says Revenue Growth Accelerates 8-Fold as DeFi Trading Surges
25.9.2020
CEO Steve Ehrlich says this quarter's revenue is on track to double what the company produced in all of its last fiscal year
China’s BSN International integrates support for Tezos network
25.9.2020
Global developers can now start building projects on top of Tezos through China’s BSN
You can now trade on Uniswap without leaving Twitter
25.9.2020
Mask Network has launched a widget allowing Twitter users to trade on Uniswap without leaving the social platform
New Loom Network CEO clarifies concerning information published by former employee
24.9.2020
Is the Loom Network drama settled now?
Why Top Global Brands Like the NBA and UFC Choose Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain
24.9.2020
Developed by the team behind some of the most successful crypto applications in the world, Flow is a blockchain re-designed from the ground up to be user- and developer-friendly as well as modular and future-proof. The network is already being used to develop digital collectibles offerings for...
Visa Mulls Interoperation With Blockchain as It Evolves Into 'Network of Networks'
24.9.2020
Payment card giant Visa sees a use case for a blockchain network in its strategy and talks of a "big opportunity" in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), according to two executives at the company.
Visa is evolving into a "network of networks," meaning that it aims...